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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2012) 370, 2823 doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0108
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Happy birthday Alan: a Festschrift for Alan Mackay Although Alan and I have worked on this Theme Issue together, it also serves as a celebration—a Festschrift, as the Germans have it—of his 85th birthday. Happy birthday Alan, many happy returns; ¡que cumplas muchos más! as they say here in Granada, from all of us involved in this issue.
We would simply like to see science take its place as a part of our universal culture contributing to the physical and intellectual development of all. Alan Lindsay Mackay and John Desmond Bernal in [1].
Julyan H. E. Cartwright Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC—Universidad de Granada), Campus Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain E-mail address:
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Reference 1 Mackay, A. L. & Bernal, J. D. 1965 Towards a science of science. Warsaw Congress of the History of Science. The Technologist 2, 319–328. One contribution of 14 to a Theme Issue ‘Beyond crystals: the dialectic of materials and information’.
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